Masuda Akari

"Probably, I still don't understand 0048 completely, but I'll try my best."

Masuda Akari is one of the current understudies of AKB0048 as member of the 151st generation. She is also known as Akari (あかり).

Apparance
Akari has dark brown long hair and amber colored eyes. She wears her hair down with a small ponytail. Like every member of AKB0048, she has heart shaped sparkle in her hair and eyes.

Usually, Akari wears grey clothes with red accessories, because grey and red are her favourite colors. She likes feminine but also simple clothes.

Personality
Akari is very well behaved and towards strangers she behaves politely. Actually this isn't her regular self. She is a happy, playful girl. Sometimes, she is mischevious. She wants to stand in the center but this shown rare.

In the past, Akari was arrogant. She stopped with beeing this, because she understood, that she was wrong with AKB0048. Because of this, she often listens to others, when they talk about AKB0048.

When she first arrived on the Flying Get, she was a bit shy, because she didn't knew exactly what she should do.

Past
Akari grew up in the faith, AKB0048 is evil and bad. Because of this, she doesn't know much about 0048.

Auddition
Some of Akaris friends wanted to auddition when the 150th generation was open. This was something, Akari didn't want, so she threatened that she would tell this to the D.G.T.O. Her friends didn't want this more than audditon. When the audditions of the 151st Generation started, her friends tried again to auddition. This time, they threatened Akari. They said, that they would tell the D.G.T.O. that she wanted to auddition, if she would say anything. At least, Akari audditioned too without wanting it. On the way to the Audditions, she and her friends were attacked by the DES. Some WOTA saved them and took them to the Flying Get. On the way, Akari saw the first time Entertainment though some videos of AKB0048. She started to lvoe it from the beginn of the video. The heart-shaped sparkles appeared then. From this on, she wanted to become an Understudy.

River Selection
When she arrived on the Flying Get and knew about the Selection, Akari already had decided, that she would participle. Despite she was very scared of the battle, she tried to face forward. After a not so great conversation with Ashley, she met Miru and became something like friends with her.

Later, she was together with Ashley, Zoey and Miru in the Micsaber group.

Aleenstar
Aleenstar is a planet under entertainment ban but in diffrent to other planets, mostly every inhabitant of Aleenstar is also against AKB0048. The planet is very modern but still has nature. On Aleenstar, the apparance is very important. The captial is named Miare City (ミアレシティ)

Some people write Aleenstar "Alleenstar" or "Allenstar"

Relationships
Shibuya Komari - Sempai
 * -|Successors =
 * -|150th Generation =Takayama Ai - Sempai

Hoshimiya Aoi - Sempai
 * -|151st Generation =Ashley Snow - Fellow Kenkyuusei; Her first impression of Ashley was that she is quite open. Currently, she doesn't like her, because she just turned away while a conversation with Akari.

Asahina Miru - Fellow Kenkyuusei; The girls met eachother while the second selection round. Akari likes Miru a lot. She calls her Miruru.

Kashita Miyagi - Fellow Kenkyuusei;

Zoey Bright - Fellow Kenkyuusei;

Miyabi Honoka - Fellow Kenkyuusei;

Etymology
Masuda (増田) doesn't have a meaning. The name was chosen, because it is the surname of Millyna's favourite game designer.

Akari (明かり) can mean light or glimmer.

Quotes
" 0048 is just amazing, right? It's a long story, why I'm here. " - Stage One 2.0: Kenkyuusei Dreams

Songs

 * Yume o sagasu - Her image Song

Trivia

 * Hobbies: Reading, history
 * Audition Song: Kyou made no melody
 * Favorite Color: red, grey
 * Favorite Animal: Birds, esspacily owls
 * Favourite Food: paprika, diffrent things with pepper, tomatos
 * Future ambition: Doesn't know
 * Her favourite subject is history.
 * She is very good in this subject. She can lean history of 50 years in only a week perfect.
 * The capital of Aleenstar is basicing on Lumiose City of Pokémon XY. The name Miare City is the japanese name of Lumiose City.
 * She was the only one of her friends with heart-shaped shadows.
 * Her Kirara looks simlilar to the Kirara of the 9th Oshima Yuko. She named it Notes.
 * She can't remeber names of persons she met in real.
 * Akari's Seiyuu is Yu Serizawa, a member of the Idol group i*Ris, who also voiced Minami Mirei and Fukuhara An in the Pretty Rhythm Series.